K-i;i'0LYl'ODIUM. 167 



8. p. (Eupolypodiuin) aiistra/e, Metten. ; caudeK small 

 suberect (ascending, Metten. and Kimze, who re[)rescnt it 

 horizontally creeping; many caudices seem to grow together 

 and form a densely rooting mass) scaly, stipites tufted 

 1-2-3 lines rarely 1 inch long, fronds subcoriaceous h an 

 inch to G inches long, the smallest generally spathulate and 

 very coriaceous, the larger ones linear-lanceolate 2-4 lines 

 wide much attenuated at the base and there as well as on 

 the stipites deciduously hairy, the rest at least in maturity 

 glabrous, the margin sometimes slightly sinuose, veins erecto- 

 patent forked, sori forming two lines occupying each the 

 up])er branch of the vein oval-oblong or even though rarely 

 quite linear. — Metten. Po/i/jwd. p. :^G. Grammitis Billardieri, 

 JVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 139. Kze. Aniial. Ptendogr. p. 15./. 

 9./. 2. Gr. australis, Br. Prodr. p. 2. Gr. Magellanica, 

 Desv. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 275. t. 10./. 2. Fee, Gen. t. 20. f. 3. 

 Asplenium angustifolium, J«ay. ColJ. \. p. 121. Ic. PI. Rar. 

 t. 199. Gram, nana, Brack. Fit. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 1. 

 Gr. crassa, Fee. Gen. Fil. p. 225. Gram, australis, rigida, 

 et humilis, Hombr. et Jacquinot, Voy. au Pole Sud, Crypt. 

 PL 2.ff. F. G. and H. 



Ilab. South Australia (Port Jackson), Brown. North-east Australia, Mount 

 I,indsay, /. Sim. Tasmania, Labi liar die re, Brovm, and all succeeding travellers, 

 often at elevations of 4000 feet {R. Gunn). New Zealand, abundant, all fravelli'r.1, 

 to the extreme south. Lord Auckland's and Campljell's Islands, J. D. Hooker. 

 Staten Land, il/wj^/es, 1787. Tristan d'Acunha, Carmichael. Falkland Islands, 

 Darwin. Extreme south of South America: Straits of Magellan (Jacquin); 

 Port Famine, Capf. Ph. King ; Ilermite Island (trunks of trees close to the sea, 

 ascends to 1500 feet), Hook. fil. ; Lima, Cumin;/, n. 1 052, midistinguishahle from the 

 Antarctic specimens, and I possess a specimen from Madagascar (sterile) which ap- 

 pears to be the same. — I have already, luider P. marginellum, Sw., alluded to the 

 close affinity of this with that species. Like that, it is variable in size ami in 

 form from the dwarf, perfectly compacted, and exactly spathulate fronds, as it 

 usually grows upon rocks, to the linear-lanceolate ones of 5-6 inches in U'ligth, 

 as it commonly grows on trees. 



9. P. (Eupolypodium) parasltic?iin, Mett. ; "caudex as- 

 cending, stipes 2-4 lines long, fronds coriaceous sparingly 

 clothed with black hairs beneath 1^-2^ inches long lanceo- 

 late rather obtuse entire or rcpand, veins immersed forked 

 extending to the margin, sori short oblong on the superior 

 branch in the middle between the costa and the margin on a 

 rather prominent receptacle having a few black seta;." — 

 Metten. PoJypod. p. ^€y. Grammitis attenuata, Kze., in Linncea, 

 xxiv. p. 251. 



Hal). Nilghiri Ililis, Schmid, Beddomc, v. 107. Ceylon, Gnrdner, u. 1283, 



